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flora, which consists of Taraxacum or Oxi/ria, grows either under 

 the bird-cliffs or in places where tuff has been reassorted by water. 

 The limit of flowering plants seems to be about 3000 feet. The 

 total phanerogamic vegetation consists of about 43 species, all of 

 wliich are common to both Norwaj' and East Greenland. The 

 origin of the flora presents a very complicated problem. Seeds 

 have probably been brouglit there on the feet of wading birds 

 w'hicli migrate to and from tlieir breeding-grounds in East 

 Greenland. It is highly improbable that Jan Mayen has ever 

 been connected with eitlier Iceland or Greenland. Many plants 

 have probably reached Jan Mayen durng recent years. 



Mr. Frits Johans^en (visitor) and Mr. A. J. Wilmott added 

 further remarks, to which Mr. Musters replied. 



February 2nd, 1922. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodwaed, F.E.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the liJth January, 

 1922, were read and confirmed. 



The report of the Donations received since the last Meeting 

 was laid before the Fellows, and the thanks of the Society to the 

 several Donors were orderetl. 



Dr. William Eae Sherriffs, M.A.(Aberd.), was admitted a 

 Fellow. 



The following were proposed as Fellows: — Eeginald Cory, 

 Hugh Vandevaes Lely, B.Sc. (Edin.), and Prof. Surendra Chandra 

 Banerji, M.A., B.Sc. (Calc). 



The certificate in favour of Khubchand Isardas Thadani, B.Agr. 

 (Bomb.), M.Sc. (Texas), was read for the second time. 



The following were elected Fellows : — Lekshminarayanapurani 

 Subramania Subramaniam, and Hugh Eraser Macmillan. 



Mr. Frits Johanssen then gave an account of the Canadian 

 Arctic Expedition (1913-18), of wliich he was a member, which 

 started from Vancouver in tlie ' Karink ' to ^."onie in Alaska, 

 where local requisites as skins, dogs, and native attendants were 

 procured, and the expedition divided into two parties, the 

 northern and southern. The former under Mr. Stefansson became 

 frozen in on board the ' Karluk ' in September, was carried west- 

 ward, until she was crushed in the ice and sank, in about 

 73° N. Lat. and 160°-165° W. Long. The party took necessaries 

 from the ship and camped on an ice-floe. In attempting to reach 

 laud in February 1914, five sailors and three of the scientific staff" 

 lost their lives; the party in JMarch reached Siberia, finally 

 reaching Nome in May. The relief ship relieved the party and 



